Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

In a news conference held Tuesday, Nov. 22, Shuttle External Tank (ET) program manager John Chapman, manager of the external tank program, d...

The Japanese Hayabusa probe became the first craft ever to take samples from a celestial body other than the Moon. The probe touched down o...

A team from the University of San Carlos in the Philippines reports that study of a single area - the seafloor around the island of Panglao ...

According to a new item in Science News , the modern combat tactic of jamming a rival's sensors is not so modern. Fish do it! The 15-c...

The day of the amateurs - whether they are naturalists, fossil-hunters, or astronomers - is far from over. We think of science as a big-tic...

A new study indicates the largest known ape of all time, Gigantopithecus blackii , lived well into the time when humans inhabited its Asian ...

Anthropologists are sharply divided over the validity of Homo floresiensis , despite recent finds that extend the presence of these meter-ta...

The National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy has produced a very clear and urgent report, Rising A...

The London Aquarium is now host to the world's first autonomous, self-navigating robotic fish. Developed by the University of Essex, in...

The best source for keeping up with what's happening in science policy and funding is the American Insitute of Physics news page. The A...

This pains me enormously, but I must report that my second book on zoological discoveries and mysteries has been postponed again. The publis...

The "Tiger Team" formed to examine the unsettling External Tank foam-shedding events on the flight of STS-114 has reported in. Wh...

The Internet's answer to The Daily Show offers this enjoyable nuggest about government rule-bending. The Onion "reports" tha...

Michael P. Ward, British physician and mountaineer, has died. While Ward has many important feats of mountaineering to his credit, includin...

The "Highland Mangabey" (Lophocebus kipunji) has become the first new monkey species described from Africa since 1984. Biologists ...

Astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng safety returned to Earth by parachute in their Shenzhou VI spacecraft, making China 2-for-2 in succ...

In 1960, unusual deep-sea volcanic rocks were dredged up from the waters off Mexico, near Guadalupe. They broke apart with loud popping noi...

The team of Northrop Grumman and Boeing team revealed its planned version of the Crew Exploration Vehicle, NASA'a next crewed spacecraf...

Science Frontiers is a unique newsletter collecting snippets of information about scientific anomalies and curiosities from sources ranging...

China announced the launch of its second human spaceflight mission, this one carrying two men. The Shenzhou VI was lofted by a Long March 2...